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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER Death of Dr. George Mezger.
On November 2, 1931, Prof. George :M:ezger, D. D., passed from this life to the life everlasting at Zeblendorf, near Berlin, Germany, where he had lived since the summer of 1923 as the representative of the l\iissouri Synod and professor at the theological semi~ary of our brethren of the Saxon
and Lessons in the Small Oatechi.sm of Dr. :Martin Lttthe1·. Ile likewise furnished the Lutheraner, Lehre 1tn(l ll'ehre, and the Hom,iletic Magazine with many valuable contributions. What will possibly interest our readers most is the fact that he sen•ed as a member of the Colored Mission Board for :fifteen yea.rs and was its efficient chairman during the later years of bis membership. Ile was greatly interested in the work of our Church among the Freedmen and devoted much thought and time to our Colored 1\Iissions. In him our Colored Missions have lost a sincere friend and an earnest intercessor. F. J. L.
Remodeled Administration Building, Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C. The Administration Building of Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N. C., was so completely changed during the past summer as to need a new introduction to our readers. Formerly this building, one of the three constituting the physical plant of the college, was three stories in height wit h a cupolalike bell-tower in the center of t he roof, flanked by steeples at the four corners. Because the kitchen and the dining-room became unsanitary, because the section used as dormitory by the male students was not conducive to good health, because the various classrooms left much to be desired as regards heating and lighting, because a careful inspection showed the necessity of an entirely new roof, and because in general, the inadequacy of the arrangement of the building became more and more apparent also by contrast with modern institutions in .this educational center, which, besides a very large high school for Negroes, contains five colleges, including the Agricultural aJ).d Technical College and Bennett College, both for Negroes, the :Mission Board resolved to petition Synodical Conference for an appropriation of $40,000 for the Prof. George Mezger, D. D. purpose of remodeling the building, a plan which, Fre~ Church. Dr. G. :M:ezger was a. native of Ger- considering the cubic contents, proved more ecomany, but came to America at the age of eighteen nomical than the erection of a new building. years. · He graduated from our St. Louis Seminary The work of remodeling was completed in in 1881. After serving in the ministry for a num- August, 1931, with the happy result shown in the ber of years with success, he accepted a. professor- · illustration, though some regrets have been voiced ship at Concordia. Seminary, St. Louis, in the fall because of the disappearance of the many steeples. of 1896. He served this institution and his Church Without entering into a detailed description of as professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology the many changes in the interior, which, after all, for the long -period of twenty-seven years. During only such can appreciate as have seen the original this long time he was also active in a literary ,vay, layout, let it suffice to say that the Administration publishing Outlines on hutke,ts Small Oateckism Building now contains a good st~dy hall, the neces-
